In general, machining metal on a lathe or mill takes skill and patience as the accuracy of the cuts are important. To make those accurate cuts, it is important to know where the tool is located and ...

The project utilizes a cheap digital caliper and a microcontroller kit to create the digital read out that uses the information from the calipers to display the current position of the cutting toll on ...

[MakinStuff] wrote in to let us know about a project he did for new and improved interfacing to the ubiquitous cheap Chinese digital calipers. Interfacing to this common caliper model is well-trod ...